There is an essay by Andrew Walden on today's Front Page Magazine which cuts to the heart of the Papal Jihad and the left liberal media's reaction to it. Here is the "money" part: Reuters quotes an Indian Muslim leader doing precisely what Manuel II said they would: “Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the chief cleric of New Delhi's historic Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque, extolled Muslims to ‘respond in a manner which forces the Pope to apologize.’” Note they intend to use “force” not reason. Reuters quotes an unnamed diplomat pointing out the Pope was, “calling a spade a spade”. The secularist mouthpiece, New York Times,editorializes, “Pope Benedict XVI has insulted Muslims….” This is false. The Pope’s description of the Islamic God as being unbound by reason is not an insult, it is an Islamic article of faith. What Muslims and secularists fear is the Pope’s decision to choose to enter dialogue asserting his belief in Christianity. How dare he not “apologize” for being a Christian? That is the so-called “insult.”The Islamist reaction proves Manuel II’s 600-year-old point. The reaction is not one of anger but a calculated attempt to force the Pope to parrot the PC line on Islam. Since Islam need not be internally consistent and it is not bound by reason, it’s only objective can be to assert the power of a God who is so transcendent that He is not bound by anything. If man is created in God’s image then by extension Islamic man is not bound by anything. (This explains the predilection on the part of some Muslims to lie.) Islamists are not responding to any ‘offense’ to their non-existent morality. They are asserting the only ‘morality’ they have—the will to power.
“Will to Power” is a key element of Nietzsche’s philosophy—hence the root of the term, Islamofascist. Moreover the Western “Left’ is today guided far more by Nietzsche existentialist thought than by Marxist thought—hence the alliance between the Western “Left” and the Islamofascist ‘Right.’
Walden is correct. To the Islamofascists the Pope's remarks are nothing more than an excuse to behave like the thugs and bullies which they are. To the left liberals the greatest enemy is the West and its Christian foundation.
It is lost on the left-liberal elites at the New York Times that if the Islamofascists were to gain power in the US that they would be among the first to be killed. In traditional Islamic societies Christians and Jews (whom the Koran calls "People of the Book") who are willing to accept dhimmitude and pay the jizra are allowed to live. However feminists, homosexuals and athiest/agnostic "free thinkers" are stoned, shot, beheaded, buried alive, or burned at the stake.
You know. It would almost be worth it. . .
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